From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 5 11:51:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32A8154B5 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:51:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-051.thuntek.net [207.66.52.51]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id MAA28854; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:49:38 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3709056C.723E64D@thuntek.net> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 12:48:12 -0600 From: Donald Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Installation Guide Project [Was: Re: FreeBSD Adovcacy] References: <199904051837.LAA22924@usr04.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > No offense to people who have FreeBSD help sites, but if I have a question > > I go straight to the FAQ/Handbook, and usually nothing else. It's silly to > > spread ourselves so thin across several documents. > > You mean like Linux, with all those "how to" books with "Linux" on the > cover, confusing new users into using Linux instead of FreeBSD? My sentiments exactly. Some of our better contributors haven't been _outside_ of FreeBSD for a while. We need Dummies books, we need Complete FBSD, we need BSD Unleashed, we need... oh, yes, and we need the Handbook. The Handbook is for people who are already "in" FreeBSD, not for the outsiders peeking in. I see my role as expanding our user base, looking for the 1% who will be able and willing to contribute. It's like junk mail. You send out 10000 olive branches and you get one dove. Judging by the numbers Jonathan Bresler gave me for majordomo subscribers, we have a long way to go, and that means encouraging advocacy of all forms. I'd much rather see people writing down their thoughts than not, whether "inside" the FBSD Project or "outside". I'd prefer to give them a framework in which _all_ these efforts could be "inside", because then a good editor can take the best and stitch it together with some wowee! pictures and make something of it. -- Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message